Chapter 692 New Deal
The train slowed down and was about to enter the platform. Except for Allen who used illusion on his wizard robe, the girls all took off their wizard robes and put on ordinary summer clothes. Finally, the train stopped at Platform 9 at King's Cross Station. Allen and the others followed the surging crowd down the train, and while adult wizards continued to greet the new savior in a friendly manner, Crookshanks suddenly jumped out of Hermione's arms and ran away. After going out, Hermione, who was a little surprised, hurriedly chased after Crookshanks, and Alan and the others followed closely behind.
Not far away, after saying goodbye to the Weasleys, Harry was talking with Sirius Black who came to pick him up at the station. Sirius took Harry's luggage with a very happy expression on his face. Crookshanks jumped up and jumped into Sirius' arms, knocking him who had recovered to be quite strong with his fat body and knocked him back two steps.
"Crookshanks," Sirius yelled excitedly and caressed him with both hands.
Hermione and the others finally passed through the bustling crowd and rushed to him.
Seeing this, Hermione stopped in her tracks. After all, Crookshanks and Sirius had cultivated a friendship like comrades-in-arms. Crookshanks even helped Sirius and Allen fight back then.
Sirius kept stroking Crookshanks' smooth fur, and said with emotion: "This cat is not young." He returned Crookshanks to Hermione, and Hermione smiled: "Indeed, it probably He is sixteen or seventeen years old. If he were an ordinary domestic cat, he would definitely not be in such a good condition. If it were a Muggle cat or raccoon, his lifespan would be even shorter. My Crookshanks can obviously live for a long time... ..."
Sirius turned his head to say hello to Allen, but suddenly found Helena floating behind Luna.
"My Merlin, why did Ms. Gray follow you? How did you take her out of Hogwarts?" Sirius, who graduated from Gryffindor, exclaimed exaggeratedly, and then used what he thought was low The voice came close to Allen's ear, "So that rumor is true?"
Allen did not answer Sirius' reckless question, but said to Sirius in a relaxed tone: "Sirius, I have a good deal for you."
"What deal?" Sirius asked suspiciously, "As long as it doesn't involve other people, you can just say what else you want in my house. You helped Harry in this Ministry of Magic incident. I haven't made it right yet." Thank you."
"How is Kreacher?" Allen asked Sirius. He still doesn't know whether Dumbledore has told Sirius the news in the past few days, but since Sirius has no accident, this Dumbledore, who has been busy dealing with Voldemort's return for several days with the Purebloods, as well as the Ministry of Magic and the International Confederation of Wizards, may not have time to deal with it.
"That dirty old thing? Stay at home, you want it?" When Sirius glanced at Hermione behind Allen, he showed a clear expression. He heard Harry say Dobby's Things and Hermione's attitude towards promoting the liberation of house-elves, in the eyes of Sirius, Kreacher has undoubtedly become a tool for Allen to curry favor with girls, but thinking of Granger's background, Black still persuaded earnestly, " Alan, of course I would give it to you, I wanted to get rid of it a long time ago, but this old guy is too influenced by my mother...not suitable for He...I think you know what I mean, even I doubt the general Pure blood is not considered by it..."
"We recently found some clues about Mr. Regulus Arcturus Black's disappearance." Knowing that Chikley was still there, Alan felt that the impromptu plan that he had just met Sirius just now could be carried forward. , So he directly released the fierce news to Black.
"My brother, Regulus? Isn't this stupid idiot dead long ago?" Sirius' eyes sharpened. Although Sirius felt that Regulus was a hopeless bastard, it was his own after all. Blood relatives, compared to getting news from Regulus,
It doesn't matter whether Kreacher will hurt the Muggle-born Hermione. Presumably Allen has a way to make him soft.
"Yes, I'm sorry, Mr. Regulus Black is indeed dead, but we have found some things about your brother, maybe we should be able to find his body." Allen said calmly , "All you have to do is to ensure that Kreacher is alive and well in your house until we investigate clearly. You know, I also heard Harry talk about the...bad relationship between you and it."
"You can go and take it away now." However, Sirius was suddenly taken aback and made a request: "Mr. Alan Harris, I can make a deal with you, but the prerequisite is that we need to reach an unbreakable oath, You must promise that you will never ask Kreacher anything about the Order of the Phoenix, and you cannot use magic to forcibly find out this information!"
"No problem, but I prefer fair trade. I'll get it back after I finish my part, but use a contract, it's more convenient and you don't need to find witnesses." As Allen's voice fell, a piece of The parchment rushed out of Alan's pocket and was suspended in mid-air. Alan glanced at the wizards, big and small, who were surrounded by the vision, and his expression became a little flabbergasted. He threw the pen to Sirius, let his fingers burst into flames, and began to write on it in Latin, which successfully caused a burst of exclamation from the surrounding wizards.
Unlike the one signed by William the Conqueror, the parchment did not have those decorative initials and painted decorative borders, it was just a very simple contract.
"Devil's contract!" As a former collection of the Black family, Sirius knew the power of the devil's contract.
"Don't worry, I think you should be familiar with it even if you don't know how to use it. I didn't do any extra tricks. After I give you the news about Regulus, you give me Kreacher. I just hope that you can guarantee Kreacher during this period." Everything is safe—of course he is very old, even if he died of natural causes, I will give you the news if I find out. I just want to ensure that you and your members of the Order of the Phoenix will not hurt him. It is said that your attitude towards it is different. Well..."
"I have nothing to do to hurt that ghost." Sirius cursed, Allen handed over the devil's contract to Sirius, and Sirius suspiciously speculated on the contract in his hand, carefully reading it for a long time, for fear of falling into the devil trap.
Allen crossed his arms and folded his chest so that he could look at him leisurely: "If I really want to do something to you, do I need to go to such trouble?"
In the end, the desire for news of his brother Regulus was so overwhelming that Sirius signed his name on the devil's contract with a swipe of the pen. After signing, the contract automatically flew back to Alan. Alan looked at the full name of Sirius on the contract, nodded in satisfaction, added his full name, and put it in his pocket middle.
The moment Alan finished signing, the power of the contract made Sirius understand all the clauses on the contract paper. Sirius nodded in satisfaction. Sure enough, Alan didn't make any concealment about the clauses, just let him Take good care of Kreacher and never hurt him at any time.
Although I really hate this house elf, but it is not enough to hurt it at will, Sirius felt a little wronged for a while, "I am not a sadist, I have never abused it, but it doesn't Take care of yourself, no house-elf is as scruffy as it is."
Then, it took a long time for Allen and the others to walk out of the platform. A wizened old guard stood guard at the partition, allowing only two or three people through at a time, so that they wouldn't burst through the solid walls in a mass at once and attract the attention of the Muggles.
"Alan, Helena can't apparate, you can go with me." Hermione suggested, "We have to hurry up, Mom and Dad must have been waiting for a long time, they always come early and wait."
"I wish I had known whether the Gate of Another World would cause danger and damage to ghosts without entities when I was at school with Barrow experiment... I'll send a message to my family first." Allen nodded, a The shadow crow appeared in his hands. After Alan explained clearly that he had brought Helena back and had to return by car to arrive later, the shadow crow flew high and disappeared from Alan's eyes. without a trace.